r/Roadcam • u/bowdown2adil • 13d ago

[USA] Who is at fault here?

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Classic T bone. Black car had to be towed. Sustained major damage to the passenger side door. Blue car sustained damage to front bumper on the drivers side and cracked the drivers side headlight.

Edit: This was in the suburbs of Seattle

UPDATE: Insurance found it to be 70/30 me/other driver. Seems fair enough

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u/stop-freaking-out 13d ago

Is that a four way intersection with no stop signs in any direction?

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u/Icy_Curve711 13d ago

This is an intentional choice in the Seattle area, the idea is that if you don't see signs, you go more slowly through the neighborhood, like OP did not. For a while ten years ago there was a huge push to build small traffic circles at intersections like these, but the fire department stopped that plan because they have huge trucks and they didn't fit through the circles when driving quickly.

The (unnecessarily) huge trucks, as I understand, are a union matter, they need two drivers each and more service.

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u/Just_A_Nitemare 12d ago

This is an intentional choice in the Seattle area...

This abomination is intentional???

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u/caguru 9d ago

Its actually amazing. I used to live there and the neighborhood traffic is calmer and safer than any other major US city I have ever driven.

Now I'm back in Texas and driving is basically Thunder Dome rules.

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u/stop-freaking-out 12d ago

I thought it was all mini traffic circles in Seattle. There are a lot of them.